Results 51 to 60 of about 204,464 (194)

A Behavioral Test of Contamination Fear in Excessive Health Anxiety [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Hypochondriasis and health anxiety are characterized by preoccupation with the fear of currently having a serious physical illness. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders conceptualization of hypochondriasis does not include ...
Brady, Robert Edwin
core   +2 more sources

Generalization gradients for fear and disgust in human associative learning

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2021
Previous research indicates that excessive fear is a critical feature in anxiety disorders; however, recent studies suggest that disgust may also contribute to the etiology and maintenance of some anxiety disorders.
Jinxia Wang   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Acquisition and maintenance of disgust reactions in an OCD analogue sample: Efficiency of extinction strategies through a counter-conditioning procedure.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2021
BackgroundObsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) has long been considered as an anxiety disorder, disgust is the dominant emotion in contamination-based OCD.
Caroline Novara   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Transgressions and expressions: Affective facial muscle activity predicts moral judgments [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Recent investigations into morality suggest that affective responses may precede moral judgments. The present study investigated, first, whether individuals show specific facial affect in response to moral behaviors and, second, whether the intensity of
Cannon, PR, Schnall, S, White, M
core  

A Taxonomy of Disgust in Art [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Disgust has been a perennial feature of art from medieval visions of hell to postmodern travesties. The purpose of this chapter is to chart various ways in which disgust functions in artworks both in terms of content and style, canvassing cases in which ...
C Barker   +20 more
core   +1 more source

Gender and Physiological Effects in Connecting Disgust to Political Preferences [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Sensitivity to disgust predicts social attitudes, but this relationship can shift depending on gender and whether response to disgust is measured through surveys or physiological tests.
Friesen, Amanda, Jacobs, Carly M
core   +2 more sources

Disgust Promotes Disposal: Souring the Status Quo [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Humans naturally dispose of objects that disgust them. Is this phenomenon so deeply embedded that even incidental disgust – i.e., where the source of disgust is unrelated to a possessed object – triggers disposal?
Han, Seunghee   +2 more
core   +1 more source

IMPULSE moment-by-moment test:An implicit measure of affective responses to audiovisual televised or digital advertisements [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
IMPULSE is a novel method for detecting affective responses to dynamic audiovisual content. It is an implicit reaction time test that is carried out while an audiovisual clip (e.g., a television commercial) plays in the background and measures feelings ...
Calvert, Gemma A.   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

Psychic euosmia and obsessive compulsive personality disorder [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Patients with obsessive compulsive personality disorder (OCPD) often refer to a prompt mood improvement upon encountering good scents in general, or fresh laundry borax on their clothes, pillows or home settings.
Maraone, Annalisa   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Face-Inversion Effect on Disgust Evoked by a Cluster of Dots

open access: yesi-Perception, 2018
A cluster of dots such as lotus seed pods evokes extremely strong disgust when it is placed on human and animal skins. However, few empirical studies have examined the role of the background image, such as skin, in the generation of disgust.
Manami Furuno   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Home - About - Disclaimer - Privacy